I would also like to ask the original photographer of the image I am currently using if I may use it on the wiki. If someone here knows enough french to translate the likely short exchange needed to get a yes/no from him, that would be really helpful.

Double post, sorry… Vetaro, while I'm in the vicinity ;>, I'm also going to review your SCP, but not right away: no time today and no time tomorrow, will Sunday be OK for you? Bear with me! And if in the meantime you get other reviews, so much the better!

You should refer to the animals as SCP-XXXX-A at pretty much all times.

Note that it only affects non-human animals, and what animals it's seemed to work for through testing, if any others, or that we don't know what it works on or doesn't.

to increase entertainment value

These are for the animals. I get the connection, but stay focused on the animals.

SCP-X is a socially transmissible reality-bending phenomenon affecting a herd of animals (currently 15 Alpacas, five goats, two llamas and a pyrenean mountain dog, classified as SCP-X-A and numbered -1 to -23)

This is your first sentence, or maybe better your first two.

that requires attention and physical-mental care to be provided to SCP-X-A.

Specify that attention is from humans or humanoids. That is, assuming that the need for attention comes from the anomalous effect, which I'm not so convinced of.

Public Site-2889 is built to exceed local standards for zoological enclosures, providing ample opportunities for SCP-X-A to climb, traverse, hide, run long distances and relax. Additionally, a range of playground and entertainment attractions surrounding enclosures are to be maintained to increase attractiveness to visitors. Increased enclosure security is concealed from visitors by decorations and prevents outside animals from entering, primarily through the glass dome. Surrounding land is kept landscaped to facilitate re-capture in case of containment breaches.

Several things:
- what do you mean by 'exceed local standards for zoological enclosures'? Do you really need this?
- 'providing ample opportunities': mmmh. Not very clinical IMO. How about a more neutral 'allowing SCP-X-A to climb', etc? (see also below)
- glass dome? What glass dome? Where is it? What does it cover? How large is it?
In general, from this paragraph and the ones around it: WOW. This public site must cost an arm and a leg - in building, maintaining, staffing, surveillance, etc.! To me, the containment procedures come out as distinctly over the top. Perhaps you should tone/sum up all this down a bit?
Plus, more out of personal curiosity: why Clermont-Ferrand?

In case of subjects being transported into the enclosure due to mistakes in containment, multilingual site personnel are to ascertain their point of origin, inform return crews and apply a class-A amnestic at time of departure.

This sentence is not clear at all. What 'subjects'? Transported by whom? Mistakes in containment to keep out or to keep in? And multilingual site personnel: another ruinous item of maintenance budget! ;>

SCP-2889 is a socially transmissible phenomenon affecting a group of animals (currently 15 Alpacas, five goats, two llamas and a pyrenean mountain dog, classified as SCP-2889-A and numbered -1 to -23) that provides human attention and physical-mental care to SCP-2889-A when these conditions are not already met.

This sentence is not clear either. I do believe you mean that the anomaly consists in, roughly: 'We shall be petted, or we shall destroy your world'. I think you should rephrase (and break your sentence, which is quite long).
BTW: it's Pyrenean mountain dog - 'pyrenean' being from the name of a place (the Pyrénées mountains), it's capitalized.

four (4) hours of visual attention and one and a half (1.5) hours of physical attention from per day

You don't need this number of letters (number in figures) thing. And what is this 'from' doing at the end?

Failure to fulfill the requirements for physical well-being and emotional stability causes the occurence of localized reality-reshaping events aimed at satisfying the needs of SCP-2889-A, including the destruction of barriers blocking their way, reshaping of locations into habitats qualified to entertain and house them, changes in weather patterns as well as sudden growth of appropriate food irrespective of available soil.

Failure to fulfill this requirement for an instance of SCP-2889-A will cause a random human from within a 300km radius to be instantly transported within reach of the instance.

Okay. You have two different outcomes to failure to fulfill the requirements in two different paragraphs of your description. Which one is it? Shouldn't the two be grouped, for reasons of logic, and the differences between the two explained? What makes SCP-2889-A go from plucking a potential human to restructuring reality: the number of instances that go unpetted?

Most Veterinarian treatment is possible

Why capitalize 'Veterinarian'?
Shouldn't 'treatment' be plural?

Double-blind attempts with mechanisms

Why double-blind? And what is a double-blind attempt anyway? Enquiring minds want to know! ;>

The effects of SCP-2889 can be transmitted to additional animals should they be accepted into the herd or socially accepted by individual SCP-2889-A.

I wander why you make a distinction between being accepted by the herd and being accepted by an individual. Wouldn't it be simpler to stick to 'accepted by herd'?

instances of SCP-X-A removed from the group and, while cloven-hoofed animals are more likely to be accepted by SCP-2889-A

Note in passing: you have a number of 2889 and quite a few X. Since you may not be able to use 2889 if it's already taken by the time you put this on the mainlist, you should probably replace all 2889 by X (or whatever). The search/replace will be more efficient!

All high security testing to transmit SCP-X to humans has failed and no case has been caused by containment or care personnel.

Why mention 'high security testing' here? Obviously the Foundation would conduct tests with humans in high security conditions… And do you need the end of the sentence, 'and no case' etc.?

In case of a containment breach lasting longer than 2 hours, SCP-2889 is to be reclassified as Keter and an imminent CK-Class ("Reality Restructuring Scenario") alert will be issued.

See above: providing ample opportunities for SCP-X-A to climb, traverse, hide, run long distances and relax. If any containment breach is potentially so very dangerous, shouldn't the 'opportunities' be severely reduced, especially concerning the 'long distance'? If the animals are allowed to scatter through several hectares1 of mountainous terrain, how can the caretakers be ever sure none of them have escaped to destroy the world?

Due to projected exponential growth of SCP-2889

Do the animals tend to remain together, or do they scatter?
Is the anomaly stronger when they are grouped?

GENERAL COMMENTS
The basic idea is OK, and IMO rather amusing. However, making this a public site is, I think, not really manageable:

- above-mentioned costs of building, maintaining, etc. If you make a quick list as you read of everything that is costly and/or difficult (difficult being usually costly!!), I think you'll end up with an astronomically high yearly budget and dire financial losses! The Foundation is wealthy, but not to the point of tossing money out the window…
- the Foundation does not expose anomalies to the public.
- fall and winter in Clermont-Ferrand are, believe you me, rather harsh. This means that an outdoor entertainment facility would not receive many visitors for at least four of five months per year. Alpacas, Llamas and the Pyrenean doggy wouldn't mind because all of them are adapted to harsh, high-altitude climate - and goats are also resilient, adaptable little creatures. But Clermontois would certainly mind!
- what happens if one or more instance(s) of X-A suffer(s) bad treatment? Llamas spit when they're angry, and alpacas can do it too. What happens if, for instance, a naughty child annoys a llama, gets spitted at, and kicks or hits the llama?

((I obviously wanted to write an SCP that requires the Foundation to maintain a petting zoo with goats and, in situations of dire need, come and pet the goats themselves. Is the final paragraph enough of a surprise and fitting consequence of an innocent idea?

Do you have a special affinity for goats, Vetaro? ;>
The final paragraph is OK, but I think you should tighten your containment procedures and your description of how the anomaly works. For instance, a 300-km range is quite a challenge…! See also below.

I struggled a while with the 2889-γ order. Is it clear that Foundation officials get formal training sessions in which they learn how to correctly hug alpacas?

Yes, but in fact it comes out as rather over-the-top. And contributes to the cost and risk: when not enough visitors come to the public site, the Foundation must have a pool of employees that know how to hug alpacas (? is the technique so difficult? ;>), transport them to the site, make sure Doggy also gets the (right???) kind of hugging, as well as goats… and llamas…! Not logistically reasonable, I would say! See also below.

Also, I know the background of the SCP, but tried to find a balance between "readers can tell rather easily" and "WHY this is happening isn't important". Did I achieve that?))

For me, you did. I like my SCPs subtle and not-saying-too-much, making me think it over. BUT, you have to be careful you do mention everything relevant in order to give the reader all the information they need. Plus, no contradictions, like 'the animals must be allowed to roam freely' vs. 'if containment breach, disaster'.
(BTW, I'm intrigued: why did you choose the combination alpacas/llamas/goats/Pyrenean mountain dog?)

Ah. Here comes the 'below'!!!! ;>
Okay. Why don't you make Site-2889 not a public petting zoo, but a private one?
Could be an R&R place for Foundation employees. Or a reward for hard-working employees. Or a convalescent place for ill or contaminated or overworked or whatever employees. I don't think the Foundation is in short supply of these!
It would cut down the costs considerably, make containment easier by only accepting people who already know how important containment is anywhere, and you would still have your goat-petting zoo!

In conclusion: I rather like it, but it definitely needs more work IMO, including a rather essential rethink of how the anomaly works and how to contain it.

Hope this helps. Good luck! And do contact me, either here or by PM, if/when you want that translation re: picture.

Thanks for the thorough read through both of you - Zmax, I hope to have done basically everything you brought up. Eta, I'll try to address all the major points!

I changed most minor things you brought up immediately - all instances of weird wording simply stem from the fact that I'll just never be as proficient with english as a native can be.

Here are some things I wasn't able to solve because (from my perspective) they are kind of required to keep the SCP going and changing them could cause the logic behind it to collapse. I may be missing a simple solution here though: Basically I do want to keep the containment as it is: Public petting zoo. So the SCP needs three base pillars: 1. the animals need to be un-anomalous enough that you can let civilians in 2. You actually need lots of visitors, just foundation employees would not suffice - and carting them in from all over the place would be more expensive 3. It needs to have an "escalation" risk, otherwise you just have "animals what do a weird thing" and the idea goes nowhere. Also you could just put them in a normal huge zoo and make sure it is open all year without the infectuousness.

I think having a small zoo is still within foundation limits, after all there are lots of real zoos with that kind of stuff. Think of http://c8.alamy.com/comp/AGEGDE/bird-aviary-at-the-new-york-zoological-society-s-queens-zoo-in-flushing-AGEGDE.jpg for the location. The dome would make cold weather inside bearable, but primarily it would prevent birds from coming in, which would create the off chance of having an instance of -A that is a wild bird. The building and staff, in my imagination, should be similar to that of a normal tiny zoo, not +20 security troops or something. They just keep an eye on the entrance in case someone tries to bring a dog. I did remove some hints at high security and the multilingual part (see clermont-ferrand later in this text)

I did break up the first sentence of the description, which now brings another problem to the surface that I had before: the SCP does MEAN to provide care and attention to the animals, but it does not understand humans, so all it can do is basically dump one next to an alpaca and hope he will stroke it. So "provides attention" is a bit of a big statement considering that it doesn't really. But I am not sure how to phrase it otherwise.

The overall idea is that the SCP A) makes the world habitable, interesting and appropriate for instnaces of -A and for example breaks walls that annoy them if they are lacking something and B) teleports humans to the animals if they are not getting enough attention, in an attempt to make them do it. It also C) accepts all friens of the original -A. I imagine it as an anomaly that was programmed with not very specific tasks (like "make sure my goat and her friends receive good care and attention!), so it will not be able to understand the problems with its methods and learn.

The SCP also prevents intentional mistreatment, so kids just WON'T yell at the animals or hurt them. The foundation still tries of course, so double-blind tests mean that they attempt to for example hit an animal with a robot arm or electroshock them, using a person who is unaware what the button will do, and set up in such a way that the -A should not be able to tell what will happen. Even these tests fail. You should almost always do your science double-blind if you can to prevent interference.

I also kept the "in case of escape" things, because they of course don't plan for the SCP to escape - it is easy enough to contain, it is a Euclid. But let's just say it ever does. Let's say for some reason one llama stays gone. At that point, it might do freaking anything. And then, since the -A animals keep behaving like normal animals (they are, actually, literally unaware of the anomaly, so if you managed to anger them, they would react like normal animals) they might scatter and meet new friends etc - which would cause the exponential growth. I also believe that, with enough uncontained units, the reality reshaping would just happen in conflicting ways ( make a spot just right for a penguin, but also for the nearby bulls).

Some personal thoughts: Yes, I do like goats, both the actual animal and my best friend who we joke is a goat. The other -A are optional, goats aren't. The specific animal mix comes from the fact that these animals are already socially compatible, so imagining that they might be friends is not super unreasonable for a reader - the ungulates were just easy to get together, the dog was an experiment by the foundation to see what they could do (they probably also tried cows, maybe parrots and insects).

Yes, the foundation does have formal "how to correctly pet llamas" trainings to make sure employees do it right. I was being a bit cute there, but since it would be an emergency protocol, people need to be prepared beforehand and know what the anomaly requires. Like, patting the head is not as efficient as full cuddling.

And I chose Clermont-Ferrand for one silly and ond (I think) good reason: It is one of the not-super-famous-places that my french text books in school mentioned and that I had a general idea about. And it is located relatively in the center of france. A country with a ca. ~320 km radius. So if you place the SCP there, instead of most other european countries, any teleportation events are most likely to transport someone from the same country, preventing a lot of trouble (like, thanks for mentioning that thought, requiring multilinguals) I did not of course know about the weather in clermont in the winter. Would it be bad enought that people wouldn't drive there for a bit to visit the domed zoo?

I think really expensive containment can be reasoned for by an appropriate risk level. I also think this SCP, if it ended up uncontained, would be a really, really bad time (imagine just starving because you keep teleporting around constantly, together with everyone else).